Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction
Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction
New Perspectives
Reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway’s
In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in Hemingway’s Laboratory, reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway’s. Further, they provide a vivid view of his earliest tendencies and influences, first manifestations of the style that would become his hallmark, and daring departures into narrative forms that he would forever leave behind.
This critical anthology is the result of a brilliant idea….A volume which not only will lead most readers to place more value on a number of stories previously passed over but that will likely extend the reader’s sense of Hemingway’s artistry.’
—Studies in American Fiction
This collection holds something for anyone who specializes in or just has to teach Hemingway.’—American Literature
